Ecco come comincia l'articolo: "Today we had the chance to test one of the first available Atom desktop boards. While this is still a pre-production sample with an alpha BIOSè/B], we could still run some benchmarks on it. We are sure that many of you are excited to see how this 4W TDP CPU actually performs."

Sandra ci diche che la Cpu Intel 1.6GHz Atom è circa due volte più lenta di un single core Celeron 420 allo stesso clock di velocità.
As long as you don't use any multi-media applications, the system runs fine. So the most common use will be for POS systems or surfing stations. But if you think you want to do some multi-media stuff, just forget it, it's too slow.

Ecco le conclusioni dell'articolo:
"Conclusion

We didn't really have much time to play with this Atom N230-based setup, but as you can see the CPU doesn't really do well in multi-media applications. It doesn't even render that well, as Cinebench was incredibly slow, slower than we've seen in years.

On the other side, the CPU is great for surfing, typing, instant messanging and listening to music. It even plays videos just fine, whether on youtube or some .avi/.mkv files, as long as you use the VideoLAN player or ffdshow.

It doesn't consume much power, but at the same time, in multi-media applications it's slower than older Celerons, including 220 that we tested. Power consumption is only about 5W less compared to the Celeron 220 platform and it will stay under 40W. These first scores leave a bitter taste in the mouth, don't they?"